Revere senior John Galbraith recently signed a National Letter of Intent to continue his academic and baseball careers at Cleveland State University.

Galbraith, a 6-foot-2 and 185-pound shortstop/third baseman, is a two-time All-Suburban League performer (2008 second team and 2009 honorable mention). He hit .381 with 17 RBI as a junior and hit .356 with 12 doubles and 23 RBI as a sophomore.

ESPN.com is reporting Reynoldsburg senior DL Roosevelt Nix (5-10, 240) has orally committed to play at Kent State. The Web site said Nix also had offers from Air Force, Ball State and Eastern Michigan.

Walsh Jesuit senior Ryan Berry, 18, has accepted an academic and baseball scholarship from the University of Dayton.

Berry, a 6-foot, 215-pound first baseman, helped the Warriors win the 2008 Division II state championship as a sophomore. As a junior last season, he helped Walsh to a Division II state runner-up finish.

Caponi, a 5-foot-9, 170-pound shortstop/second baseman, helped the Warriors win the 2008 Division II state championship as a sophomore. As a junior last season, he helped Walsh to a Division II state runner-up finish.

Twinsburg senior Jon Harris signed a letter of intent to continue his academic and basketball careers at Miami University in Oxford.

Harris earned a full scholarship to play basketball for the RedHawks after scoring 261 points in 19 games last season. He also grabbed 168 rebounds and made 51 percent of his shots from the field and 73 percent of his free throws.

Waterloo senior Jon Pusateri has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at the University of Akron beginning in the fall of 2010.

Pusateri, a right-handed pitcher, earned All-Portage Trail Conference County Division honors during his sophomore and junior seasons for the Vikings. He struck out 53 batters in 45 innings as a junior and compiled a 5-0 record for a Vikings team that won a school-record 21 games as a sophomore in 2008.

The Canton McKinley girls' basketball team is ranked No. 4 in the Ohio Girls' Basketball Report Super 10 preseason rankings. The Bulldogs are the third Division I team behind Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame and Toledo Start.

The best prediction I made all year was on SportsTime Ohio's high school football playoff preview. I said this would be the wildest playoff year ever and there is plenty of evidence to back it.

*Four No. 8 seeds remain as we head to the regional finals, including Canton McKinley. And who would think that McKinley and Massillon would meet again in the regional final after Week 8 when the Bulldogs were 4-4?

The Akron school board has a problem. The school district wants to build the new Buchtel High School on the site of its practice and softball fields which allows students to stay in the current high school building until the new one is completed.

St. Vincent-St. Mary junior CB Doran Grant reportedly took an unofficial visit to Michigan State last weekend, according to Rivals.com. Grant is one of the state's top players in the 2011 class. He has several Division I offers.

Akron native Tyrell Sutton made his NFL debut Sunday with the Carolina Panthers.

Sutton, a graduate of Archbishop Hoban High School and Northwestern University, rushed for 15 yards on three carries and had one reception for 11 yards as a starter at fullback. The New Orleans Saints defeated the Panthers 30-20 in the game played at the Louisiana Superdome.

Walsh Jesuit’s Marco Caponi, 17, has accepted academic and athletic scholarships to Duquesne University, where he will play NCAA Division I baseball for Head Coach Mike Wilson.

When Caponi signs a National Letter of Intent this week, he will become the fourth member of the Class of 2010 to advance to collegiate baseball and the 39th Walsh Jesuit baseball player in the last 14 years to advance to the Division I level.

After Week One of the five weeks of football playoffs, here are my observations looking back and moving ahead.

*The Federal League rematch of Canton McKinley and Canton GlenOak will be a different game. The Bulldogs were the eight seed going into top seeded Toledo Whitmer and demolished the Glass City bunch, which did not surprise me, McKinley has found its swagger and I expect them to beat GlenOak this time.

When you are a writer, you see things from different angles than the public, particularly fans that follow one high school team.

On Saturday, Canton McKinley defeated Massillon, 35-21, which is always special in and of itself. Here were the Bulldogs, a team that had blown a 34-2 lead two weeks earlier in a 38-34 loss to North Canton Hoover, reaching the playoffs on third level points.

Here is a look at the 26 area high school football teams that qualified for the state playoffs after 10 weeks of regular season play, according to the Ohio High School Athletic Association computer ratings.

The top eight teams in each region are in the regional quarterfinals. Local schools that qualified are listed by division and region.